"Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse."
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"Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities."
"All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other."
"After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain."
"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."
"It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!"
"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."
"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world."
"But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past."
"It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime."
"How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out."
"These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position."
"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship."
"Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul."
"We rarely confide in those who are better than we are."
"I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife."
"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."
"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about."